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Jun. 26th, 2019 08:59 pm1. The Long Read: "Took you by Surprise: John Lennon and Paul McCartney's Lost Reunion"
"Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session."
2. Tiffany Caban Makes History Winning the District Attorney Position in Queens, NY
Another earthshaking political upset roared through Queens, New York, on Tuesday night when Tiffany Cabán claimed victory in a six-person primary race for Queens District Attorney—the first competitive race there in a generation.
Her leading opponent, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, trailed by just over 1,000 votes with 3,400 paper ballots outstanding and the Associated Press had the race as to close call Wednesday. But in even matching the support of the once formidable Queens machine nearly a year to the day after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the national political scene with her primary upset win against powerful House Democrat Joe Crowley, Cabán's performance in a borough-wide race marked a new high-water mark for the rising left.
With high-profile endorsements from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and then Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren, Cabán, a 31-year-old Latina public defender who identifies as queer, would be poised with a primary win to become the top law enforcement official in a county of 2.4 million people.
Her platform of “people-powered justice,” including ending cash bail, not prosecuting subway turnstile jumping, prosecuting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, closing Rikers Island and decriminalizing sex work marks a massive departure from the traditional tough-on-crime, prosecutorial approach of DAs around the country including the longtime Queens DA, Richard Brown.
3. Wednesday Reading Meme:
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4. Romance Novelists Face Online Harrassment from Social Media
The subject line was simple—nice, even: “Big fan!”
But when Alisha Rai clicked to open the email, she found a message from a man she didn’t know: “Your dad is so lucky he’s dead and doesn’t have to see the twat you’ve become. And the utter trash you write. Whore.”
She screenshotted the email. Then she went back to work.
With more than 15,000 Twitter followers and a slew of best-selling romance novels—including Glutton for Pleasure, A Gentleman in the Street, and her latest, The Right Swipe—Rai is used to talking to readers on Twitter, email, and elsewhere on the internet. But with that success and connection also comes near-daily harassment—propositions in her DMs, alongside threats and abuse in her inbox.
“It feels like I almost can’t remember a time when it didn’t happen,” Rai says.
"Five years after the Beatles disbanded, a period fueled by intense acrimony, Lennon and McCartney set aside their differences and got back together one more time. Inside the rollicking atmosphere of that May 1974 recording session."
2. Tiffany Caban Makes History Winning the District Attorney Position in Queens, NY
Another earthshaking political upset roared through Queens, New York, on Tuesday night when Tiffany Cabán claimed victory in a six-person primary race for Queens District Attorney—the first competitive race there in a generation.
Her leading opponent, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, trailed by just over 1,000 votes with 3,400 paper ballots outstanding and the Associated Press had the race as to close call Wednesday. But in even matching the support of the once formidable Queens machine nearly a year to the day after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shocked the national political scene with her primary upset win against powerful House Democrat Joe Crowley, Cabán's performance in a borough-wide race marked a new high-water mark for the rising left.
With high-profile endorsements from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and then Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren, Cabán, a 31-year-old Latina public defender who identifies as queer, would be poised with a primary win to become the top law enforcement official in a county of 2.4 million people.
Her platform of “people-powered justice,” including ending cash bail, not prosecuting subway turnstile jumping, prosecuting the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, closing Rikers Island and decriminalizing sex work marks a massive departure from the traditional tough-on-crime, prosecutorial approach of DAs around the country including the longtime Queens DA, Richard Brown.
3. Wednesday Reading Meme:
( Read more... )
4. Romance Novelists Face Online Harrassment from Social Media
The subject line was simple—nice, even: “Big fan!”
But when Alisha Rai clicked to open the email, she found a message from a man she didn’t know: “Your dad is so lucky he’s dead and doesn’t have to see the twat you’ve become. And the utter trash you write. Whore.”
She screenshotted the email. Then she went back to work.
With more than 15,000 Twitter followers and a slew of best-selling romance novels—including Glutton for Pleasure, A Gentleman in the Street, and her latest, The Right Swipe—Rai is used to talking to readers on Twitter, email, and elsewhere on the internet. But with that success and connection also comes near-daily harassment—propositions in her DMs, alongside threats and abuse in her inbox.
“It feels like I almost can’t remember a time when it didn’t happen,” Rai says.